Толковый словарь английского языка - senate
Senate
senate
noun see: senior Date: 13th century an assembly or council usually possessing high deliberative and legislative functions: as, the supreme council of the ancient Roman republic and empire, the second chamber in the bicameral legislature of a major political unit (as a nation, state, or province), the hall or chamber in which a ~ meets, a governing body of some universities charged with maintaining academic standards and regulations and usually composed of the principal or representative members of the faculty
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n. 1 a legislative body, esp. the upper and smaller assembly in the US, France, and other countries, in the States of the US, etc. 2 the governing body of a university or (in the US) a college. 3 Rom.Hist. the State council of the republic and empire sharing legislative power with the popular assemblies, administration with the magistrates, and judicial power with the knights. Etymology: ME f. OF senat f. L senatus f. senex old man ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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